Top 20 Most Popular WordPress Plugins for Entrepreneurs
Rating: 4.5 Stars
11. NextGEN Gallery
Downloads: 11+ millions
A powerful engine for uploading and managing galleries of images, with the ability to batch upload, import meta data, add/delete/rearrange/sort images, edit thumbnails, group galleries into albums, and more. It also provides two front-end display styles (slideshows and thumbnail galleries), both of which come with a wide array of options for controlling size, style, timing, transitions, controls, lightbox effects, and more.
Rating: 4.0 Stars
12. WordPress Social Sharing Optimization (with SEO, Video and eCommerce Integration)
Downloads: 0.4+ millions
Allows your content to be presented correctly on social media sites regardless of how you share it; from buttons, browser add-ons or pasted URLs. Improving Google Search ranking, social engagement, and click-through-rates on Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Tumblr and and many more.
Rating: 4.5 Stars
13. Broken Link Checker
Downloads: 2.8+ millions
There is nothing more annoying to visitors then clicking on a dead link or finding images missing from your page. Broken Link Checker scans your posts, comments and other content for broken links and missing images and notify you if any are found so you can avoid frustrating visitors.
Rating: 4.0 Stars
14. Mass Advertising for WordPress
Downloads: 0.1+ millions
Promote your website or blog across the globe targeting millions of potential visitors with neuro-positive interactions. Instal, select and activate the advertising package for you. The plugin also let you interact with your potential customers and improve your sites visibility via content. With the free campaign, you will need to reactivate the campaign every 24hrs.
Rating: 5.0 Stars
15. Google Analytics Dashboard for WP
Downloads: 1.2+ millions
This is more than a Google Analytics tracking code plugin, it authenticates and access the stats captured by Google Analytics and present this on the dashboard. Get number of visits, number of visitors, bounce rates, organic searches, pages per visit directly on WordPress. There is also a widget that lets authorised users view stats like Views, UniqueViews and top searches, on the frontend for each article.
Rating: 4.5 Stars
16. iThemes Security (formerly Better WP Security)
Downloads: 3.2+ millions
A second Security plugin, this quick and easy way to secure WordPress with more than 30 ways to protect your site. The plugin fixes common holes, stop automated attacks and strengthen user credentials. As with Wordfence Security, it offers a Pro version with two factor authentication, user action logging, malware scanning and more.
Rating: 4.5 Stars
17. TinyMCE Advanced
Downloads: 4.1+ millions
Gives you more editing menu choices on the What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editor including support for tables, more list options, font families and font sizes. You can also customise the menu by adding, removing and rearranging the buttons just the way you like them.
Rating: 4.0 Stars
18. PlusCaptcha
Downloads: 0.09+ millions
Another way to stop spammy comments is to use a CAPTCHA, cryptic image with number and letters that visitors use to confirm that they are indeed human and not a bot. PlusCaptcha claims to be the easiest Captcha to setup and execute. It’s a dynamic Captcha engine that uses images instead of numbers, letters, maths sums and colours.
Rating: 5.0 Stars
19. NextGEN Facebook: Complete Social SEO for Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Pinterest, etc
Downloads: 0.6+ millions
Display your content in the best possible way on Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Tumblr and more regardless of how your webpage is shared. The plugin lets you control the information that social media sites see. It also validates and automatically regenerate suitable image sizes, supports embedded videos, include things like author, publisher profile and hashtags.
Rating: 4.5 Stars
20. WP Super Cache
Downloads: 6.3+ millions
When you have more and more traffic to your site, one way to optimise and make your site response faster is to use a caching engine that creates and serve static HTML files of your dynamically generated pages and compress scripts so they are smaller and faster to load at the client end.
Rating: 4.0 Stars
One more thing…
It is easy to overlook visitors coming to the site using mobile devices i.e. smartphones and small tablets. On one of our more popular sites, we have an even ratio of 1:1 when comparing the type of devices, mobile to desktop that visitors used. So here is another plugin that you might consider…
21. WPtouch Mobile Plugin
Downloads: 6.1+ millions
An easy way to make your site mobile friendly by presenting a mobile website. This may not be necessary if you have a responsive theme as it would be designed to work on different screens; laptops, tablets or smartphones or if you use JetPack and have enabled the Mobile Theme module.
Rating: 4.0 Stars
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